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HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for her reply. I agree with her that one does not want to increase costs, but if it means producing a better result for nature and a better…17 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I support my noble friend Lady Coffey’s Amendment 341, which refers to ponds. She was quite right to mention floods and drought. I would just like to follow up on that…17 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I put my name to Amendment 211. I support what my noble friend Lord Roborough said on it, and indeed what my noble friend Lord Sandhurst said on his amendment. I was a…15 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I support my noble friend Lord Randall’s amendment, but I ask the Government not to accept it. I do that for two reasons. First, swifts are not the only migratory birds…15 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, Part 3 of the Bill gives new wide-ranging powers to Natural England, which has been heavily involved in all aspects of Part 3, much of which has been made up on the hoof…15 Sept 2025 Bills sponsored (2)